Microsoft earnings slip by 2%

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp.
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on Thursday reported a fiscal third-quarter profit of $5.11 billion, or 60 cents a share, on $17.41 billion in revenue. During the same period a year ago, Microsoft earned $5.23 billion, or 61 cents a share, on sales of $16.4 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research had forecast the world's largest software company to earn 58 cents a share on $17.16 billion in revenue.

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